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Monroe County vote-center committee recommends converting existing polling sites; officials outline equipment and staffing costs
Summary
The county’s vote-center committee recommended converting current polling locations into vote centers and estimated capital costs (about $600,000) and a 4-year equipment cycle cost of roughly $2.8 million; committee members and the Election Board discussed options ranging from 11 to 29 centers and the fiscal trade-offs of early-voting sites.
A volunteer committee convened by the Monroe County Election Board recommended converting polling operations to a vote-center model and presented fiscal estimates Tuesday as the County Council questioned budget implications.
Alana Stonebraker, chair of the Vote Center Committee, told the council the committee voted 7-0 to recommend converting “all 29 super precincts into vote centers.” She summarized how the model would let any registered voter cast a ballot at any county vote center, with ballots printed on demand and scanned at the center.
Stonebraker and election supervisor Kylie Farris gave councilors a line-by-line estimate of capital and operational costs. Stonebraker said the capital equipment price tag for printers, automatic ballot kits, label printers and scanners…
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